ThanksBot

The slack bot to add thanks in workspaces

Sometimes you just want to thank someone for something quickly to let them know you appreciate something they did. ThanksBot enables this.

Commands

ThanksBot adds two new commands to your workspace:

/thanks

Send a thanks to someone else in the workspace. The syntax is is /thanks <your message>. Everyone mentioned in the thanks will be sent a message from ThanksBot with the reason.

Running /thanks without any other text will return the introduction text.

/mythanks

Show all the thanks that you've received. It by default returns all the thanks you've received in the past week but will accept parameters: day, week, month, quarter, alltime

Building

Tl;Dr

# Build just thanks_bot images
docker build -t thanks_bot:latest thanks_bot/

# Build the test infra with the postgres backend
docker-compose up

I provide a docker-compose file that spins up test infra which is a good way to test it with the deployment settings outlined below. For production the Dockerfile inside thanks_bot builds an image based on scratch in a three stage build process that contains almost nothing except thanks_bot.

Deployment

You will need to create an app inside your workplace (I called mine Thanks). You then will have to create two slack commands (for consistency I recommend them being called /thanks and /mythanks).

Both should have escape enabled (otherwise the backend won't be able to find who is thanking whom):

You'll also need to change the domain to where ever you host your thanks_bot server.

Thanks for stopping by!

obelisk / thanks_bot